[video;] un: gen.skywalker

[ex_forcechoke292]

First off, whoever built these buckets of bolts in the hangar bay need to be let go. This is what happens when you let factories churn out garbage in large numbers: who's quality checking?

[He is. He's been here all of a few days, and he's already sequestered in the hangar, lamenting (loudly) over the sad state of automated affairs. This is where the video starts: he has the communicator propped up a short distance away as he's digging into the mechanics of one of the robots that had glitched out and come to a jerking halt with a wrench still clenched in its hand.

He mutters something about matrices before finally looking back up. This isn't the real point behind the message, regardless of how distracted he currently seems.]

Sad state of mechanical affairs aside, I have a question. [He sounds suddenly hesitant, as if he honestly doesn't want to ask it at all. He even rolls his shoulders back uncomfortably, before taking a long, deliberate breath.] I'm looking for a sparring partner. Swordsmanship proficiency if I can find it.

[Hoping against hope, but he doesn't sound too hopeful at all. As far as he knows, those who can really challenge him in this area are all back home, and neither side of that equation has a way to get back to the other... yet.]

Might as well make the most of being stuck out here, anyway.

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[ex_forcechoke292]

Going on a decade now, yes.

[F I N A L L Y. Someone gets it. Thank the Force.]

Granted, it's been a while since I've used something other than a lightsaber, but the idea is the same.

[At least he assumes from prior conversation; "sword" rarely means exactly what he wishes it did with anyone outside the Order, for good reason. But it's close enough, and he can make do.]

[estrayer]

I use something called a Seraph Blade. That's how I'm used to fighting, but with any luck, we can find something to even the field.

[ Like staffs or staves of some kind. The ship's bound to have that in their training rooms, right? That's what he's banking on, anyway. ]

I've trained all my life. I'd appreciate a real workout.

[ex_forcechoke292]

Practice blades are a far cry from the real thing, but they'll do.

[Necessity beckons, and all. He's not quite sure what a Seraph Blade is, or if it could hold up against a lightsaber, but he makes a mental point to ask when it's salient.]

You're on.

[estrayer]

Hey if we can find real blades that are compatible, I'm all for it.

[ But you're a mundane, so far as he can tell, and that makes a Seraph Blade a dangerous proposition for you. Jace won't uneven the odds. ]

Name a time.

[ex_forcechoke292]

Any time you're not busy writing greeting cards.

[NEVER. LIVING. IT. DOWN.]

[estrayer]

[ Why don’t you just kill him now. ]

I think they can manage without me. How’s this afternoon sound?

[ex_forcechoke292]

[Oh, it's a good duty shirking, is it? Anakin has never been able to properly decline as much. And killing him now would defeat the purpose of shirking duties to start with.]

I don't know, they might need a good dose of wit. [He laughs.] Sounds perfect.

[estrayer]

If you think it's wit they're after, we have very different ideas of what greetings cards involve.

[ In fairness, some of them are about wit. In more fairness, Jace doesn't exactly know that. ]

But I'll see you then. This sounds more fun.